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Comment by rcaught | Hacker News Reader

This is really great. Just two suggestions.

While minimised, the tab could display a score like A+ - this could incentivise websites to permanently present it on their pages as a badge of pride (while ensuring visibility to any changes that degrade the score).

Secondly, if you link to the project within the maximised tab, you'll likely see greater adoption.

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But why would you place this tab on a live site? It's a great tool for developers, but there's no need to place this in production imo.

Yeah spot on. Accessibility is not something you show an award for. It's expected it will work on its own.

It wouldn't be an award, it would be a grade. Compliance and accessibility notices on websites have been used extensively over the years.

But what would be the incentive for other site owners to use it then? It seems like in this scenario, the only time anyone would want to use the tool on their live site would be when they are sure they are getting an A+, any other sites that don't care about that score just wouldn't add the tool and any changes that might lower that score would presumably being taken care of before rolling out to production.

It seems like it would just turn into unnecessary bragging for the site owner. I wonder if the scoring would still be useful for development though, or if they would just try to fix as many problems as possible anyway.

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